Status: Today, I finished reading Forever by Judy Blume. It was a fun book and a quick read. As a YA writer, I’m pretty sure it falls under required reading. After finishing that, I headed down to the library and ordered I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have To Kill You by Ally Carter and Twilight and New Moon by Stephenie Myers. I didn’t actually request the second Twilight book, but the librarian said I ought to have it thrown in for good measure. The librarian actually said to me: It’s ok, I like all of these books, too. Then I realized, I should probably feel kind of funny ordering so many tweeny books. Oh well! I also picked up Tattoo by Jennifer Lynn Barnes.

As I mentioned in my last post, I found an artist for my graphic novel. I’m excited about him. His name is Ben and I’ll be sending him a rough query, scene-by-scene synopsis of the first few chapters, and the first several pages of script today. So I’m a busy girl in the coffee house today.

Hi, I'm Chandler Baker, lawyer, author of young adult and middle grade fiction and dedicated nerdfighter (not necessarily in that order). My debut YA novel, ALIVE is forthcoming from Disney-Hyperion in May 2015 (get excited!) followed by TEEN FRANKENSTEIN in the Fall of 2015, which is Book 1 in my new HIGH SCHOOL HORROR STORY series to be published by Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan. In addition, I work for a number of book packagers and can be reached at chandler1986(at)gmail(dot)com. I'm represented by Daniel Lazar of Writers House.

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Eileen is thrilled to announce that her book REMEMBER hits shelves February 24, 2015. About the Book: A thrilling tale about what a girl will do to get back a memory she lost…or remove what she wants to forget. Harper is used to her family being hounded by protestors. Her father runs the company that […]

1. I have 10 minutes before the kids come home after their last day of school and instead of showering, I'm blogging. This is a terrible, terrible decision, and yet, here we are.2. Last night my 3-year-old threw the mother of all temper tantrums at another child's birthday party and we ended the evening with me getting in his face and saying, […]

Hey guys!Some of you may know that I am teaching an upcoming course on Writing & Selling the YA novel for Lit Reactor. I ran this course over the summer, and I had an ABSOLUTE BLAST working with 18 students. As an agent and author I don't always have time to work in depth with aspiring authors and this class gives me the perfect excuse to critique a […]

We're always excited to host cover reveals -- especially when they're our own books! Behold: the final installment in Highwayer Debra Driza's MILA 2.0 series, REDEMPTION. Mila has been running for her life for so long. But there might be nowhere left for her to go. Especially now that she’s an incredible danger to herself and anyone who dares […]

I was tagged by Katy Upperman for this challenge. You can check out her post here!The rules of the blog hop are simple: Scroll through your manuscript and stop in random places. Whatever words/phrase the cursor lands on becomes one of eight terrible titles.I cracked open IN REAL LIFE, my 2016 release, and scrolled through it to find some title choices. 1. Th […]

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Hello and Happy Friday, Lovely Misfiteers!So earlier this week I did something, something that probably should have intimidated me or at the very least made me slightly nervous. But I didn't allow myself the time to think about what I was doing, I just did it.I also read a blog post about fear and was in the midst of a casual conversation that started w […]